As Puerto Rico’s Governor Steps Down, a Protest Organizer Is Determined to Not Let “The People’s Fire Burn Out.”
Activists Vanessa Contreras and Shariana Ferrer-Núñez of Colectiva Feminista en Construcción protest in San Juan in 2017. Vanessa Serra Diaz / ZUMA Press After nearly two weeks of massive protests, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation on July 24, becoming the first chief executive in the island’s history to step down during a term.…
Trump Health Care Strategy: Pretend to Have a Plan
Julien Behal/PA Wire via ZUMA Apparently Donald Trump plans to take his usual sober and considered approach to health care policy during campaign season: White House advisers, scrambling to create a health-care agenda for President Trump to promote on the campaign trail, are meeting at least daily with the aim of rolling out a measure…
How Journalists Took Down One Dialysis Patient’s $524,000 Insurance Bill
Sovereign Valentine, a personal trainer in Montana, underwent dialysis and got stuck with an incorrect bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars.Tommy Martino/Kaiser Health News Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. The dialysis kept him alive. Then the Montana…
The Democrats Finally Debated the Green New Deal
CNN, Zuma The Democratic candidates sounded the alarm on climate change in the first presidential debates, but the discussion in June was so limited that they never really got into the details of how they’d solve the crisis. It was a different story this time around. It took more than an hour to get there…
Warren Wins Democratic Activist Group’s Debate Straw Poll
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), participate in the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit.Paul Sancya/AP The Democratic party’s progressive base watched two of its top-tier candidates, Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.),…
Elizabeth Warren Summed Up the Democratic Debate in 9 Seconds
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talk Tuesday during the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates in Detroit.AP Photo/Paul Sancya By the 80th minute of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Elizabeth Warren had finally had enough. “I don’t understand,” she said, “why someone would go through all the trouble of…